Amazon’s Kindle Family: Weekend Sales More Than Double On Last Year, Cyber Monday Biggest Of All

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Amazon has released some detail on Kindle sales over Thanksgiving Weekend: as usual, it’s giving no hard numbers but instead providing general buying trends. It says that Kindle device sales more than doubled worldwide, and with discounts running on the Kindle Fire Tablet, Monday was the biggest sales day of all, and overall the whole weekend set a record for the company.
It’s a frustrating release, to be honest, because while on the one hand it appears to point to obvious popularity for the Kindle devices — and how effective the combined machine of online marketplace+product
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Black Friday is not just for Thanksgiving-celebrating Americans. Amazon today announced that in the UK, where it has also been running Black Friday sales, it sold a record number of Kindle devices — triple the previous record amount.

It’s Cyber Monday, so get ready for some hot deals on your favorite technology. Amazon is kicking things off by discounting two of their most popular tablets by $50. The Kindle Fire HDX 7″ is going for $179 (regularly $229) and the Kindle Fire HD 16GB is only $119 (regularly $169). This is only for today, Cyber Monday, so don’t hesitate.